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Would you be able to share any more details on the startup - privacy allowing? What tech were you using on the client (Windows 3.x/95?)/server-side? Did WebTV
by tpmx 3y ago
Would you be able to share any more details on the startup - privacy allowing?
What tech were you using on the client (Windows 3.x/95?)/server-side?
Did WebTV/MSN TV do anything of this?
(Fascinated with early HTTP/web optimization tech because of my part in creating the much later Opera Mini - launched mid 2005.)
- acegopher 3y agoSure thing! I was on the client-side, and joined in 1995, when there was already a version 1 of the compression/connection piece. I started work and was lead on the search product. If I remember correctly, we were developing on Windows 3.1 with Microsoft Visual C/C++ 7.0 to start and then moved to Windows 95 and Visual C++. We used Microsoft Foundation Classes, as well as Rogue Wave libraries (tools.h++ I believe). We were funded by some guys who had made a lot of money in government software contracts (we were near a major Airforce base). Here is a Google folder link with some scans of contemporaneous ads and press coverage: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzleZlz4NcDSMDc0VTBpdG9uU3c?resourcekey=0-qS2PqIhUXs0XzuUKh1jlSA&usp=share_link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzleZlz4NcDSMDc0VTBp...
- tpmx 3y agoBrilliant, thanks! (For future readers: The product name was Blaze Web Performance Pack, offered by Datalytics Inc, Dayton, Ohio. They used the domain speeditup.com in some ads.)